It's really not too late for tweeting Labour MPs to log off and take a beach day.
Given how often I was asked on doors if I beat Rishi do I become Prime Minister, there are going to be some very confused people watching the (genuinely global) coverage of this by election win seeing this photo.
The narrative about 'Reform are bottling it' is more important than whether or not its true as opens up the battle of the right block and may become a bit self-fulfilling.
Reform is winning local elections due to older higher turnout voter base paired with very low turnout overall. It's always been a problem that most voters don't think who manages local services is important enough to bother voting, but that dynamic makes the problem a lot more acute.
It becomes about scale. Combined Authorities and mayors are incentivised to go for growth, cover a sufficiently large area they become well known, and get more buy in. We need to shift the entire devolution model away from councils elected on 20% turnout to larger bodies elected on 50%.
I've met enough of them to know that replacement level democrats are surprisingly slick in the exact way that would make each and every one instantly despised in blighty.
Hello assembled news media, waking up to the concept of block voter dynamics that absolutely nobody has been banging on about in overly long threads on Bluesky for the last year.
Poor Geoff.
Can Labour potentially stop naval-gazing for a minute and address the fact in the last 48 hours we found out Russia was behind an arson attack on the PM's house and fired on a British ship in the channel?
